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venerdì 15 gennaio 2021
Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World by Gary Lachman
This definitive work on the occult’s “great beast” traces the arc of
his controversial life and influence on rock-and-roll giants, from the
Rolling Stones to Led Zeppelin to Black Sabbath.
When
Aleister Crowley died in 1947, he was not an obvious contender for the
most enduring pop-culture figure of the next century. But twenty years
later, Crowley’s name and image were everywhere. The Beatles put him on
the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Rolling
Stones were briefly serious devotees. Today, his visage hangs in goth
clubs, occult temples, and college dorm rooms, and his methods of
ceremonial magick animate the passions of myriad occultists and
spiritual seekers.
Aleister Crowley is more than
just a biography of this compelling, controversial, and divisive
figure—it’s also a portrait of his unparalleled influence on modern pop
culture.
Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley by Richard Kaczynski
A rigorously researched biography of the founder of modern magick, as
well as a study of the occult, sexuality, Eastern religion, and more
The
name “Aleister Crowley” instantly conjures visions of diabolic
ceremonies and orgiastic indulgences—and while the sardonic Crowley
would perhaps be the last to challenge such a view, he was also much
more than “the Beast,” as this authoritative biography shows.
Perdurabo—entitled
after the magical name Crowley chose when inducted into the Hermetic
Order of the Golden Dawn—traces Crowley’s remarkable journey from his
birth as the only son of a wealthy lay preacher to his death in a
boarding house as the world’s foremost authority on magick. Along the
way, he rebels against his conservative religious upbringing; befriends
famous artists, writers, and philosophers (and becomes a poet himself);
is attacked for his practice of “the black arts”; and teaches that
science and magick can work together. While seeking to spread his
infamous philosophy of, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the
Law,” Crowley becomes one of the most notorious figures of his day.
Based on Richard Kaczynski’s twenty years of research, and including previously unpublished biographical details, Perdurabo paints
a memorable portrait of the man who inspired the counterculture and
influenced generations of artists, punks, wiccans, and other denizens of
the demimonde.
The Book of Thoth: A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians, Being the Equinox Volume III No. V by Aleister Crowley , The Master Therion
This book describes the philosophy and the use of Aleister Crowley's
Thoth Tarot, a deck of Tarot cards designed by Crowley and co-designed
and painted by Lady Frieda Harris. The Thoth Tarot has become one of the
best-selling and most popular Tarot Decks in the world.
It is also
one of the most original interpretations of the tarot, incorporating
astrological, numerological, Egyptian, and Qabalistic symbolism. While
there are many other useful guides to this famous tarot deck, there are
no others that explain the deck in its designer's own words.
The book is divided into four major parts:
* Part One: The Theory Of The Tarot.
* Part Two: The Atu (Keys or Trumps).
* Part Three: The Court Cards.
* Part Four: The Small Cards.
Part
One is further divided into three chapters; Part Two into two chapters
and an appendix; Part Three into one chapter; and Part Four into one
chapter. The book includes a list of plates depicting the Tarot cards as
seen by Crowley and Harris.
There is an Appendix A: the use of the
Tarot in the Art of Divination; and an Appendix B which includes the
obiter dictum: "the 'correspondences' are not arbitrary". Appendix B
also includes the Key Scale of the Tree of Life with the conic sections
of mathematics and a diagram attributing the trigrams of the I Ching to
the ten Sephirot.
Diary of a Drug Fiend and Other Works by Aleister Crowley by Aleister Crowley
If you are interested in the arcane, the occult, the erotic or the highs
and lows of drug addiction, then this book is for you. A piece of
fiction inspired by Crowley's own experience of drugs and first
published in 1922, Diary of a Drug Fiend follows Sir Peter Pendragon, a
veteran pilot of World War I, who comes into money and saves himself
from life-sapping indolence by marrying Louise Laleham, a devotee of the
occultist Basil King Lamus. The couple marry and leave for Europe on
honeymoon, then return to England to fight their demons as the book
paints a vivid picture of their love set against a lifestyle of
decadence, addiction and 'magick'. An uplifting and inspiring work of
literary genius. Provides insight into the truth about drug-taking as
well as psychological insight into the mind of an addict. A must-read
for those interested in the occult. 'We must conquer life by living it
to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.'
Aleister Crowley
The Book of Lies: Oversized Keep Silence Edition by Aleister Crowley
Created from high resolution scans of a 1913 first edition copy, this printing faithfully recreates the original printing as closely as possible. This oversized edition is aproximentally twice the size of the original for easy reading.
Digital edition available for free at https://keepsilence.org
Magick: Liber ABA, Book 4 by Aleister Crowley , Mary Desti
This second revised edition of Crowley's magnum opus features new, more
legible typesetting, text corrections based on a previously unseen
corrected proof, and the previously unpublished Liber Testis
Testitudinis.The original Book of the Law was rescanned for this
edition, using the latest technology, for the clearest facsimile
possible. Edited, annotated, and introduced by Frater Hymenaeus Beta,
XI.
The Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." This oftmisunderstood
phrase, which forms the basis for Crowley's practice of Magick, is
found in The Book of the Law. Dictated to Crowley in Cairo between noon and 1:00p.m. on three successive days in April 1904, The Book of the Law
is the source book and key for Crowley students and for the occult in
general. The holy text that forms the basis of Crowley's belief system,
Thelema, was transmitted to him by the entity known as Aiwass over the
course of three fateful April days in 1904. With his wife Rose as the
medium for what would become known as the Cairo Working, Crowley
dutifully transcribed the communications on hotel stationery. This work
contains the corrected text of the 1938 edition with a facsimile of the
handwritten manuscript.
Magick in Theory and Practice by Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley | MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE | True to Original Copy
| "Magick in Theory and Practice" is part III of "Magick, Book 4" by
the occultist Aleister Crowley. Widely regarded as his major work, it is
an extensive treatise on magick, a system of Western occult practice
synthesized from many sources, including Eastern yoga, hermeticism,
medieval grimoires, contemporary magical theories by authors such as
Eliphas Levi and Helena Blavatsky, and Crowleys own original
contributions. Part III is perhaps the most influential section within
Book 4. In this part, magick is defined in Crowleys famous
"Introduction", which is the source of many well-known statements, such
as "Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in
conformity with Will." | "Magick is the method of science and the aim of
religion." | "Every intentional act is a Magical act." | "Magick is the
Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of
applying that understanding in action." | "Magick is merely to be and
to do." The book contains many influential essays on various magical
formulae, such as Tetragrammaton, Thelema, Agape, AUMGN, and iao. The
section also addresses fundamental magical theorems, essential
components of ritual, and general practices (e.g. banishing,
consecration, invocation, divination, etc.).
giovedì 14 gennaio 2021
Il silenzio Franco Loi (Mimesis 2012)
"Sono queste le tracce sul tema del "Silenzio" che il poeta Franco Loi lascia nel suo incamminarsi verso questo luogo della decantazione dei suoni dove lo stupore, la sorpresa e l'incanto della parola prendono forma e ritmo. Un saggio, dei racconti e delle poesie che sanno come diventare all'unisono un coro di grazia e di luce."
Aria de la memoria. Poesie scelte 1973-2002 di Franco Loi (Einaudi)
Franco Loi sceglie e presenta il meglio della sua produzione, realizzata
in oltre trent'anni di attività. Definito da Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo "la
personalità poetica più potente degli ultimi anni", Loi è tra i più
noti poeti dialettali italiani. Un poeta che non si limita a usare
dialetti diversi, latinismi, toscanismi e persino lingue straniere: la
sua è una lingua poetica spuria, molto personale, contaminata (per
esempio il milanese diventa un idioma di contatto tra locali e
immigrati). Questo perché il dialetto è per lui la lingua di un mondo
della concretezza, al tempo stesso voce epica portatrice di una coralità
spesso emarginata e voce sola dei versi d'amore o meditativi.
Da bambino il cielo di Franco Loi (Garzanti)
"Da bambino il cielo" è il romanzo di una vita: perché la biografia di
Franco Loi è un racconto che scorre come un fiume, dagli anni Trenta a
oggi, passando per il fascismo, la guerra e la liberazione, le profonde
trasformazioni sociali e tecniche, il passaggio dall'industria meccanica
alla tecnologia, il Sessantotto e la nascita del terrorismo. La memoria
s'intreccia con la storia e illumina il presente, i destini individuali
- a cominciare da quello del narratore-protagonista-si riverberano in
un percorso collettivo, nelle speranze e nelle delusioni di una
famiglia, di una città, di un popolo. Nelle parole del poeta milanese, i
ricordi diventano la chiave per capire il mondo. Spesso si condensano
in immagini esemplari, a volte tragiche a volte buffe, ma sempre vere:
la madre sdraiata sul tavolo da cucina con le ventose sulla schiena,
oppure i giocatori del Genoa che corrono sull'erba, là sotto, lontani.
O, ancora, il pugile che trova un libro di Nietzsche su una bancarella,
lo compra e abbandona la boxe per diventare poeta...
La pazienza del diavolo di Roberto Cimpanelli (Marsilio)
Ermanno D'Amore, un ex ispettore che dopo aver lasciato la polizia ha
rilevato la libreria di famiglia a Roma, tiene a bada i propri demoni
stordendosi col sesso. Quando il vecchio collega Walter Canzio si rifà
vivo chiedendogli una mano nelle indagini su una serie di efferati
delitti che insanguinano la Capitale, accetta malvolentieri. Qualcuno
sta massacrando a colpi di fiocina da sub dei colpevoli di gravi reati
sessuali che per un motivo o per l'altro erano riusciti a farla franca. È
un caso che sembra riguardarli da vicino: tutte le vittime sono persone
che ai tempi erano state arrestate da loro. Con l'aiuto di Ermanno, che
prima di dimettersi era noto per il suo eccezionale intuito
investigativo, Walter spera di risollevare la propria traballante
carriera catturando l'assassino. Tutto cambia non appena emerge una
possibile connessione tra i delitti del serial killer e una vecchia
inchiesta la cui tragica conclusione aveva sconvolto le loro vite e
distrutto la loro amicizia. Erano convinti che quel caso fosse
definitivamente risolto. Ma lo è davvero? Quell'antica storia di sangue e
orrore potrebbe non essere ancora finita, e non immaginano quanto sarà
alto il prezzo che dovranno pagare per chiuderla una volta per tutte.
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